Which of the Following Statements About the Career Civil Service

question 27

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about the career civil service is MOST accurate?

• A)Most civil servants are young people from blue-collar backgrounds who work a few years in the government before moving on to the private sector.
• B)In order to ensure that the federal government operates as effectively as possible, federal regulations make it easy to fire incompetent civil servants.
• C)As government employees, few civil servants have the power to form unions and bargain collectively.
• D)Civil servants may neither run for elected office (partisan or nonpartisan) nor contribute to an electoral campaign.
• E)Civil servants are paid according to where they rank on a numerical General Schedule rating system.

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